Sean Michael Kerner

Opera Software is out with a new release of its namesake browser for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. Opera 11 includes new features aimed at improving usability, extensibility and security. The new Opera 11 release comes as rival browser makers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox, continue to push forward […]

One of the biggest hurdles that Oracle faced when acquiring Sun Microsystems was handling the open source MySQL database. There were concerns about how the open source database would fare under Oracle’s leadership, but those concerns are now being put to rest by Oracle with the release of MySQL 5.5 “MySQL 5.5 delivers significant performance […]

The filesystem of choice for many of the top 500 supercomputers is the open source Lustre filesystem. Lustre started off as a Sun Microsystems effort and is now under the stewardship of Oracle. Though Oracle is the leader of the Lustre open source project, other vendors also participate in Lustre development. One such vendor is […]

With its open framework, the Linux Kernel gets contributions from myriad sources. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Linux developers continue to push out new kernels at rapid pace, though over the course of the last year the pace of new code commits has slowed, according to a new report from the Linux Foundation. The report also […]

While cloud computing and virtualization are today’s leading emerging IT trends, does actual adoption live up to the hype? Sean Michael Kerner reports. The cloud is a topic that is top of mind for many in enterprise IT, but how widely is it actually being deployed now? Networking vendor Cisco this week issued a pair […]

Cisco and BMC are joining forces for a new cloud delivery platform that aims to enable service providers to deploy and secure cloud services. The new solution integrates Cisco’s unified service delivery networking hardware with BMC’s Cloud LifeCycle Management (CLM) solution. With the integrated cloud delivery platform, Cisco and BMC are aiming to accelerate cloud […]

In what may turn out to be Novell’s final earnings report as a public company, revenues continued to fall as the company is set to be acquired. Enterprise software vendor Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is on the verge of being acquired for $2.2 billion by Attachmate. For its fourth quarter fiscal 2010, Novell reported net revenue of […]

Goodbye Novell. After months of speculation about who might acquire Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL), the company announced today that it was being sold to enterprise software vendor Attachmate for $2.2 billion. The deal is set to close in the first quarter of 2011. Privately held Attachmate will be paying $6.10 per Novell share, which is a 9 […]

Back in 2006, Raleigh, North Carolina-based rPath helped to pioneer a new market for Linux based software applianceswith the rBuilder service. Now rPath is moving beyond its Linux roots into the Windows world. With rBuilder 5.8, rPath is delivering a service that will enable enterprises to build customized Windows application stacks that can then be […]

It’s often easy to forget that even though Mozilla gives away its flagship product, the Firefox web browser, Mozilla itself still generates millions in revenues from Firefox usage. Mozilla today publicly released its financial statements for 2009, reporting $104 million in revenue for the year. The 2009 revenue tally is a 34 percent increase over […]